Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public utility type, the anti-trust laws, and the prevention of unfair competitive practices. The first half year particularly seemed disorganized, and the lecturers felt called upon at the end of each semester to outline what they had been talking about. The reading is comprehensive; the lectures generally fair enough, though not inspiring...
...Varsity in yesterday's workout gave the impression that it is not lacking in power but that it is slow to start, slow to block and slow to take advantage of an opening. No fair estimate can be made of the backfields used because of frequent substitutions on the Jayvees but it looked as though the sophomores had the edge. Only a light workout is scheduled for tomorrow...
...convinces the natives of the Bible Belt that they are the Lord's chosen people. In a romantic interpretation this is the spirit of the soil, mystical, but nourishing and real. In a materialistic psychology the observer might merely comment that the hinds realize that in prosperity or dearth, fair weather or foul, their lands will feed them and save them from the evils to which their stupid incompetence would lead in harsher circumstances...
...American Bankers Association is not used to meeting without plenty of social entertainment. Last week nearly 2.500 ABA-men assembled in Chicago, held their usual dinner without speeches, visited the Fair if they were so inclined, found time for some golf. Then, more soberly and attentively than usual, they attended their speechmaking sessions, held in the great gilded ballroom of the Hotel Stevens. They gazed thoughtfully at an enormous shimmering blue tapestry behind the speaker's rostrum, diligently considering the problems of U. S. banking, model 1933. Good reason had they for devoting themselves to work rather than play...
...that World's Fair visitors may have an opportunity of hearing Chicago's famous orchestra," trustees of the Chicago Symphony last week announced that its 1933-34 season would open a week earlier than usual-on Oct. 5, when round little Conductor Frederick August Stock mounts the rostrum in Orchestra Hall to commence his 29th season. Other Chicago Symphony news: ¶ The number of concerts (28 Thursday evenings and Friday afternoons, twelve Tuesday afternoons) will remain the same, but the price of season tickets will be lower. Subscribers will pay $2 to $5 less for the long series...